Question

i have an asset class which have type, name, label etc.

Asset types are: avatar, image, video, summary etc.

I want to have Video < Asset type only for type = ‘video’, but for all other types – Asset should be used.

If i use self.inheritance_column = ‘type’ – it fails, because cant find Avatar class.
Is there any approach how to map all types to Asset class except video?

Thanks,
Kirill Salykin

Answer 1

That won’t work. You’re either doing STI with those types or you aren’t.

The way to do it is use type as your STI column, and something like asset_type as your categorization column. Then only video gets the type column, all other assets use the asset_type column to tell what’s what.